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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Art Journal Cover

Well, finally I made it and dived into art journalling! It took me quite a while to find the appropriate approach for me without feeling that this is not "me" but "art journalling as it is done". I admire so many art journal artists, who do a lot of colourful painting and drawing and doodleing... but "my style" is different and it took some time to unravel it from all my impressions found in blogland.

But now that I feel confident with what I do, I dared buy an art journal to work in!!! And today I created the cover to turn this wonderful empty piece of card art into my piece of art. (And by doing so I understood my pupils' fear of plain, white paper for the first time *lol).

Yes, you are right - it's the awesome art journal from finnabair's collection! And it is such a well thought-out design - with all its pockets, the manila and card pages, the envelopes and bags! Just brilliant!

I went for a rather reduced colour scheme and covered the cover with a thick layer of white Gesso for a start. I also coated some metal embellishments with white Gesso for later use.

I used a scrap from a journal page that I had overdone and therefore cut to scraps for use with a different project. Sometimes these cut out pieces look so much better than the whole page you cut it from!

I glued it to the cover after some heavy spritzing and playing with some Mr. Huey's and Chalk mists and also some diluted acrylic colours.

The wire stamp is from BoBunny (love it!). It is from the "Distressed Textures" clear stamps set and also available at SimonSaysStamp over here.

Stunning design Claudia, everything is perfectly placed and I love the arty feel of it with the textures and the dripping and everything. I really look forward to seeing how this journal journey of yours will continue!

Fantastic work again, Claudia - this will inspire you every time you pick up your journal to play. Gorgeous textures and paint effects - the minimal colour palette is wonderful, and I love those gesso'd embellishments. Got to go and check out Red Lead stencils now, you tempter!Alison xx

Wow Claudia, I can’t believe I missed so many fabulous posts here... today I took time and look around your blog and I love everything you made...from fantastic Vienna photography to fantastic unique creations....very creative, like always!!Thank you for great inspiration!Hugs